Hybrid System Supporting Flexible Design of Flat Rolling Production Processes in Collaborative Environment

The paper is devoted to advanced production processes design, based on numerical simulations of material behaviour under complex loading conditions. The computer system proposed in this work facilitates creation of the sophisticated flat rolling facilities composed of different subesequent stages e.g. heating, roughing and finishing mills, cooling, cutting, descaling. Each stage is treated as a separated module with its own features and methods that implement its functionality. However, the most demanding part of proposed system lies in reliable simulation of connection between these separated modules. To deal with this the highly fexible numerical solutions are required. Creation of this approach is the main goal of the work and is described in details including examples obtained results. Disscusion on accurate material models taking into account dynamic recrystallization or grain growth as well as on application of the optimization procedures inorder to obtain desired final properties is also presented in the paper.